CCE staff members Laurie Gagnon and Stacy Young, alongside
Rochester, NH coaches Kathy Cotton and Heidi Zollman,
presented the session,
Professional Learning Communities to Create Quality Performance Assessments
, an overview of CCE's Quality Performance Assessment process and
Rochester school district's journey into the development of performance
tasks in their competency-based district.
Gagnon and fellow CCE staffer Irene Logan, alongside Professor Xiu Cravens of Vanderbilt University, presented the session, Exploring Approaches to Instructional Improvement through Collaborative Inquiry, an outline of four approaches to instructional improvement using practice-based inquiry cycles in teacher-centered professional development.